Re: [collectd] 5.4 tcp write_graphite gets stuck in closed_wait

2013-10-18 Thread ryanL
i managed to solve this. i don't know why, exactly, but only loading snmp, syslog, and write_graphite plugins was the culprit. one of the following has stopped the closed_wait situation, even though i am not using any of them. +LoadPlugin syslog +LoadPlugin cpu +LoadPlugin interface +LoadPlugin lo

Re: [collectd] 5.4 tcp write_graphite gets stuck in closed_wait

2013-10-18 Thread bill
one option to reduce data loss on udp is to ensure you get multiple samples per time slice. sure you may get an average from 2 instead of 3 but it won't be a gap/loss I've been using multicast udp ( not to graphite ) and have taken this approach. so far it has been working pretty well. we are r

Re: [collectd] 5.4 tcp write_graphite gets stuck in closed_wait

2013-10-18 Thread Michael Hart
This is similar, but not quite the same behaviour as the bug I've got open, also with write_graphite and TCP behaviour. Mine is that write_graphite doesn't recover if the graphite carbon-cache is restarted. (https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/430). I know this isn't the answer, but swi

[collectd] 5.4 tcp write_graphite gets stuck in closed_wait

2013-10-17 Thread ryanL
heya. i've compiled 5.4 for linux (centos) at commit 0a161fcfd, and seem to be having a problem that does not exist at 5.1. my collectd is pretty barebones, just doing snmp polling against network devices every 60s. when first starting it up, i get an established TCP connection to my graphite coll